First, it means He holds all authority, power, knowledge and
presence. As the Psalmist has told us, He is inescapable. If we ascend into Heaven,
He’s there. If we descend into Hell, He is there (now that’s a full discussion
in-and-of itself).
Secondly, it means that He knows more than I do. He knows
how to create something from nothing, I can only rearrange what is already in
existence. Trust me. I’ve tried. I have said, “Let there be T-bone steak.”
Nothing happened. But when God said, “Let there be light,” there was light.
Thirdly, it means that God gets to make the rules, not me.
His ways are not my ways, but His ways are always right, righteous and final.
Fourthly, it means that He is the essence of fairness. When
His sense of what’s fair and my sense of what’s fair conflict, He is always
right and I am always wrong. Was it fair for Jesus to have to go to the cross
and die for my sins? Jesus said it was for the joy of fellowship with me that lay
before Him that He did it. Fifthly, God is all powerful. The splitting of one atom released enough energy to destroy Hiroshima. Think how much power there must be in all of the atoms in the universe, trillions to the trillionth power and more. Yet God holds the universe in His right hand. He is more powerful than all of it.
Sixthly, God’s sovereignty means that He is everywhere at once. I have troubles being where I’m supposed to be at any given time. God doesn’t. He does not live in a church building or in some ethereal nowhere. God the Father lives in Heaven. He lives in the hearts of His children in the person of His Holy Spirit.
Seventhly, it means that He knows more than the cumulative
knowledge of all of the men who have ever lived, all of the men who are living
today and all of the men who will ever live. He knows my inmost being. He knows
the things I won’t let anybody else know about me.
Eighthly, God’s sovereignty means that His Word is His bond.
His living Word is Jesus. His written Word is the Bible. His Word is the same
yesterday, today and forever. While there is no “magic” in the paper and ink of
published Bibles, there is power in His Word. Through His Word (His son, Jesus
Christ, the second person of the Trinity), was everything made that has been
made.
Ninthly, it means that He cannot as much as look upon sin.
Sin is so repugnant to Him that He has declared that if we die in sin, He
cannot allow us to live with Him in eternity, but must be banished to an
eternal Hell. We would all be thus doomed except for Christ, who was made sin
for us so that we wouldn’t have to experience it for ourselves.
Tenthly, God’s sovereignty means more than I could ever
express in words. He is awesome in His completeness. He is worthy of our
worship. He is worthy of our fear and deep respect. We must bow down before Him
in reverence and humility. We must not treat Him frivolously. We must not
reduce Him to simplicity and meaningless repetitiveness and triteness.Make no mistake. God is sovereign.
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